Percy Cox

Percy Zachariah Cox (20 November 1864-20 February 1937) was a British civil servant, diplomat, and Major-General in the British Army.

Biography
Percy Zachariah Cox was born in Herongate, Essex, England on 20 November 1864, and he was educated at Harrow and went to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He went to India with the army in 1884, and he held a number of posts in Indian state government before becoming a political resident in the Persian Gulf in 1904. In World War I, he liaised closely with the Iraqis as chief political officer in the Indian Expeditionary Force. Cox served as High Commissioner of Iraq from 1920 to 1923, and he helped establish Emir Faisal as king, and he assisted the Iraqis in developing their army and constitution. He also negotiated the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, which established a British military presence there. Cox was one of the major figures in the creation of the current Middle East.